Medial vs Distal - What's the difference?
medial | distal |
Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
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In or near the middle; not at either end.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial , or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
(lb) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the midline.
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# (entomology) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
(lb) Closer to the addressee.
One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.
Any of various things that occur in the middle.
(anatomy, geology) Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle.
(dentistry) Facing the wisdom tooth or temporomandibular joint on the same side of the jaw.
(linguistics) Far from the speaker.